Arts Fuse Editor
Classical Concert Review: Radius Ensemble — A Vivid Musical Journey, Filled with Solace and Grandeur
The stormy exuberance of Debussy’s Piano Trio in G major inspired one of the many highlights of this mostly auspicious night.
Again and again, one encounters vivid glimpses of a man whose passion for music and music-making was immense, and who was gifted at conveying that passion to colleagues and students.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
The point of Bob Dylan’s project is emotional rather than definitive: to probe the power of song to influence us, make us feel, and ultimately transform us.
Kick the Latch (the title refers to what is done to open the starting gate in a horse race), through its plain and spare authenticity, is a powerful and impressive success.
A wrap-up of the London Film Festival that focuses on two favorites, Inland and The Store.
I know no more thoughtful disquisition, for the opera stage, on basic questions of life, death, war, love, power, and resistance.
English makes us consider what it looks like from the other side of our native tongue; from the outside looking in.
The Pixies could be anthemic, snarky, jaunty, or forlorn as they chose, which meant they were never boring.
Book Review: “Folk Music — A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs”
At points Greil Marcus’ digressive style can seem like nervy brilliance, at others, idle whimsy. What ennobles the book is the critic’s love for his underlying subject: the soulful search for a truer America.
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